Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007. Hard Cover. 8vo. xiii, 342 p.p. Cloth. Foreward by Joan Rivers. No marks to dust-jacket. Light bumping to spine ends of boards. Title page signed by author. Clean, a fine copy of book. More about Starring Brian Linehan. a Life Behind the Scenes
London: Weidenfeld and Nelson [A Windrush Press Book], 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original jacket and publishers blue cloth. xiii, 210 p.p. [8] p.p. plates of illustrations. Jacket bright. Light rubbing to covers. Some scratches to boards. Spine-ends bruised. Interior clean, bright. Near fine in a fine jacket. More about The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy
Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo. 237 p.p. White cloth binding with red titling to spine. Some scuffs to boards. Dust jacket lightly sunned at head and spine. B&W photos.Text clean, spine tight. More about Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xvi, 512 p.p. Cloth. No marks to dust-jackets or boards. Seferis was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. More about George Seferis. Waiting for the Angel
London: Chatto & Windus Ltd., With William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1973. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). Volume 1: 1894-1939, 400 p.p. Volume 2: 1939-1963, 378 p.p. Dust jackets price clipped. Aqua publisher's cloth, gilt titling to spine. Pages bumped at head of fore head of volume 1. Sunning to... More about Aldous Huxley: A Biography (2 volumes
Quebec: Musee Du Quebec, 1986. Hard Cover. 4to. xv, 199 p.p. Cloth. Photographs throughout. Endpapers designed with a portrait of Louis Jobin. Small tear to top of jacket spine. No marks to boards. Fine copy of book. More about Louis Jobin. Master-Sculptor
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1951. Hard Cover. 8vo. xxii, 422 p.p. Cloth. Illustrations. Discolouration to spine ends and corners of dust-jacket. Tears to ends of dust-jacket. Bumping to boards, extremities. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Notes in blue ink to head of rear pastedown. Price clipped. Overall... More about Goethe's World. As Seen in Letters and Memoirs
San Francisco: Sybil City Book Company. Khavarani, Kamran. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectors Edition. In matching pictorial slipcase, with shrinkwrap. Original jacket and yellow cloth binding. xv, [2], 18-300 p.p. Inscribed by Kamran Khavarni on the title page in gold marker to Dwayne Tapp... More about The Birth of Abstract Romanticism: Art for a New Humanity: Rumi, and the Paintings of Kamran...
Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1977. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Inscribed by author, "With every good wish--Anima Bose." [viii], 96 p.p. Green cloth boards with white titling to spine. Spine ends are bumped, and spine and edges are sunned, scuffs to rear board, else in very good condition. Illustrated dust... More about Mahatma Gandhi - A Contemporary Perspective
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). First Printing. ix, 292 p.p. [12] p.p. b/w photographs. Light rubbing to jacket. Small tear to foot of front jacket and closed tear to head of front cover previously repaired with tape on inner jacket. Light sunning to inner... More about Tallulah, Darling: a Biography of Tallulah Bankhead
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). Volume I: iii, 544 p.p. Green vinyl. Top edge gilt. Rubbing to edges of boards and spine ends. Some soiling to bottom edges. Light bumping to corners. Small bruise to top of rear board. Abrasion from previous bookplate... More about Benjamin Franklin Self Revealed. a Bibliographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own...
London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1960. Hard Cover. 8vo. Cadet edition, second impression. 190 p.p. Five full-page plates of b&w photographs incl. frontis. Signed and inscribed in Chinese by Gladys Aylward, about whom the book was written. Original blue publisher's cloth with gilted title on spine, lettering a little faded. Minor..... More about The Small Woman
London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Original jacket and green cloth binding. Title in red on spine. 244 p.p. Includes frontispiece, plus [1] plate of photograph of D.D. Home at 45, and a portion of a holograph letter written by Home, on his expulsion from... More about Heyday of a Wizard: Daniel Home the Medium, with a Foreword By Harry Price
Amstelodami: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1600. First Edition. Hardcover. 48mo. Full vellum binding. Spine lettered. Decorative gilt tooling on spine. All edges in red. 575 p.p., [23] p.p. index. Includes engraved title-page. Ogier Ghislain Busbecq [1522-1592] was a Flemmish writer and diplomat, who was ambassador to the Ottomon Empire at Constantinople... More about A. Gislenii Busbequii omnia quae extant
London: The Richards Press, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. [xiii] 230 p.p. Red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket. Book clean and tight. Jakcet is price clipped, light edge wear, a couple of small chips and sunned at the upper edges and spine, with dark spot from old price sticker. More about Aleister Crowley. The Man: The Mage: The Poet
New York: New York Review Book, 2002. Soft Cover. 8vo. xx, 291 p.p. in English. Paperback. Introduction by Antonio Grafton. Translated by Jean Stoner. No marks, copy as new. 'The Book of my Life' keeps the story of Italian Renaissance, Cardano Girolamo alive, discussing his everyday life and discoveries. More about The Book of My Life (De Vita Propria Liber
Rev. Samuel Rose, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Green cloth binding with decorative boards. xxiv, 277 p.p., [1] plus 10 p.p. ads. Frontispiece of Robert Corson. Two newspaper clippings loosely inserted, about Rev. Newton Hill and Rev. Dr. Young. Light rubbing to edges, extremities. Slight bruising to spine ends. Corners... More about "Father Corson;" or, the Old Style Canadian Itinerant: Embracing the Life and Gospel...
London: Gurney and Jackson, 1928. Crawhall, Joseph; Riddell, W.H. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original green cloth boards. T.e.g. xx, 353 p.p., plus [5] p.p. ads. Illustrations by Joseph Crawhall and W.H. Riddell [20 in colour, incl. frontispiece], and rough sketches by the author. Errata slip on illustrations page. Abel Chapman..... More about Retrospect: Reminiscenses and Impressions of a Hunter-Naturalist in Three Continents, 1851-1928
London; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006. Soft Cover. 8vo. xii, 516 pp. 29 plates throughout. Author inscription on front free endpaper. Bumping to spine ends and rubbing to edges. Light scratches to covers. Book in near fine condition. More about He Also Spoke as a Jew: The Life Of James Parkes. Foreword By Irving Greenberg
Buenes Aires: Sociedad Impreora Americana, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Traduccion del Italiano por Etele Silvia Casale. Ediciones Argentinas S.I.A., Colleccion "Cumbres" Series No. 3. Stiff pictorial yellow wraps. [8], ix-lxii, [7], 8-180 p.p. plus vi (index), [8] p.p. commentary and colophon. Illustrated with [8] woodcuts. "Printed in Argentina" stamped on... More about Vida Poesia De San Francisco: Narracciones Escogidas de las "Florecillas", de las...
New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1953. Hard Cover. 12mo. War Edition, complete text. Cloth. 123 p.p. Small loss to bottom of jacket spine. Some tearing to corners of jacket. Brusing along extremities of boards. Ex-Libis plate by Madeleine Perkins to f.f. endpaper. A near fine copy of book. More about The Chiangs of China
London: Faber & Faber, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Original green jacket and publishers burgandy cloth with Clifton coat of arms and motto in gilt and title on spine. Gilt device of the sun at spine head. T.e.g. 439 p.p. Clifton coat of arms stamped in red on title-page..... More about The Book of Talbot
London: Printed for B. Crosby, 1808. Hardcover. 12mo. To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Late Correspondance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer With the Bank, and a List of the Statutes...Tan cloth boards. viii, 172 p.p. Includes frontispiece of Abraham Newland. Bruising to bottom corners and light wear... More about The Life of Abraham Newland, Esq. Late Principal Cashier at the Bank of England
London: Animal Pictorial Ltd., 1938. First Edition. Soft Cover. 12mo. 30 p.p. Original black-stamped stiff wraps. B&W photos. Sunning to covers, front cover bowed. Light foxing to covers and some pages. Offsetting from rear cover to last page. More about Grey Owl: An Appreciation
New York: It Books, 2010. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). In original jacket with matching boards. 348 p.p. [16] p.p. of photographs. Some scuffs to jacket covers. Light scratches to rear board with bottom corners gently bruised. Binding tight. A near fine copy. This memoir by the lead vocalist... More about Neon Angel: a Memoir of a Runaway